George S. Juniper was born in Jacksonville, Florida in September of 1960 and was the second child and first son of an average Navy family. The first twelve years of his life were spent moving every three years to different Naval facilities. He moved from Jacksonville, Florida to Brunswick, Maine, then to Oahu, Hawaii, back to Lexington Park, Maryland, before finally settling down in Virginia Beach, Virginia where he eventually married, raised a family, earned a bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering leading to a successful career in the ship modernization industry. For the most part, your average sort of guy.
George experienced a rather ambiguous Christian upbringing. Being raised by parents who had shunned much of their own Christian childhood while still observing the various traditions associated with the typical Christian experience, George spent the better part of his early years outside of the weekly Sunday-go-to-church scene.
At about the age of 23, George was introduced to his wife’s, sister’s boyfriend. George and Jon became good friends and eventually began discussing the existential questions of life. Turns out Jon was a devout Christian who had been shown a key to understanding the Bible and attempted to show it to George. At first, George, being the agnostic that he was, scoffed at the notion that the Bible was even what it claimed to be, the word of God, much less that someone could use this supposed “key” to understand its content. But George was game and told Jon that he would use this key to prove that the Bible was not the word of God but rather a book written by men to control the masses with a bunch of religious tradition.
Well, that’s not how it went at all. George unknowingly opened his mind to hearing the testimony of God by using the key, which is simply understanding the Bible in context of time and circumstance. That’s a very broad stroke but, the only way to know if the key actually works is to use it for yourself.
That’s what George did. He used the key and took a life-changing journey when he considered the Bible the way it should be considered, one on one; from God’s mind, to your mind with no one in between.
As a result of these experiences, George considers himself to be a “minister without portfolio” in that he has no formal training from a Christian seminary or school of divinity, etc. He’s not an ordained preacher or priest; nor is he affiliated with any denomination. He’s simply a believer and has been a student of the word of God for almost thirty years helping him to author this non-traditional look at the Bible.